Enviro-Health Links - Mercury and Human Health
Overview
-- Exposure to Mercury: A Major Health Concern (PDF, 115 KB)
World Health Organization - Mercury
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - Mercury
International Chemical Safety Cards, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health - Mercury in Your Environment
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Mercury Report - Children's Exposure to Elemental Mercury
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - Pocket Guide - Profile & Exposure Limits
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Law, Regulations and Policy
-- Environmental Laws that Apply to Mercury
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Mercury and Air Toxics Standards
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency - Regulatory Actions - Final Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for Power Plants
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Specific Aspects
-Dental Amalgam
- Amalgam Waste, Best Management
American Dental Association - Dental Amalgam
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Mercury and Health Care
- Immunization Safety Review: Vaccines and Autism (PDF, 700 KB)
National Academy of Sciences - Infant and Environmental Exposures to Thimerosal and Neuropsychological Outcomes at Ages 7 to 10 Years
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Mercury in Drug and Biologic Products
U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Mercury in Plasma-Derived Products
U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Thimerosal in Vaccines
U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Thimerosal in Vaccines
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Understanding Thimerosal, Mercury, and Vaccine Safety (PDF, 300 KB)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Thimerosal in Vaccines
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Vaccine Safety
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Mercury and Women
- Food Safety for Moms-To-Be: Before You're Pregnant - Methylmercury
U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Food Safety for Moms-To-Be: While You're Pregnant - Methylmercury
U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Mercury and Pregnancy
March of Dimes - Mercury and the Effect on Women's Health
womenshealth.gov - Mercury Poisoning Linked to Skin Products
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Mercury in the Environment
- Mercury in the Environment
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Mercury in Food
- Fish Consumption Advisories
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - 2017 EPA-FDA Advice about Eating Fish and Shellfish
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Eating Fish: What Pregnant Women and Parents Should Know
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Mercury in Schools
- Don’t Mess with Mercury - A mercury spill prevention initiative for schools.
Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Mercury: Assessment Checklist for Schools
Northeast Waste Management Officials' Association - Mercury in Your School
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - Getting Mercury Out of Schools and Communities
Northeast Waste Management Officials' Association - Mercury Fact Sheets: The Partnership to Reduce Mercury in Schools
Department of Health, New York State
Mercury Reduction
- Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (CFLs) and Mercury
EnergyStar.gov - Mercury in Consumer Products
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (CFLs)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Storing, Transporting and Disposing of Mercury in Your Home
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Occupational Exposure
- NIOSH Safety and Health Topic: Mercury
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health - Occupational exposure info
Occupational Safety and Health Administration - Occupational Safety and Health Information for Mercury (Vapor) (as Hg)
Occupational Safety and Health Administration - Safety and Health Topics: Mercury
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Poisoning
- Medical Management Guidelines for Mercury Poisoning
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Topic-related Searches of National Library of Medicine Resources
-PubMed - Biomedical journal literature
- Dental Amalgam
- Mercury
- Mercury Poisoning
- Thimerosal
TOXLINE - Special journal literature, technical reports and archival collections
- Mercury
- Methylmercury
- Thimerosal
Hazardous Substances Data Bank - Toxicology of potentially hazardous chemicals
ChemIDplus - Chemical identification and structure database
Haz-Map - Information on hazardous chemicals and occupational diseases
Tox Town - Consumer introduction to environmental health and toxic chemicals
TOXMAP - Mapping chemical releases into air, water, and ground
MedlinePlus - Consumer Health Information
NLM Catalog - Access to information about books and other materials in NLM's catalog
- Mercury and Mercury Poisoning
Blogs, News, Podcasts, and Videos
-Blogs
- It All Starts with Science
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - The EPA Blog
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Videos
Información en Español
-- Información bàsica sobre el mercurio y sus efectos en el medio ambiente
Agencia de Protección Ambiental de Estados Unidos - Seguridad alimentaria para futuras mamás: Antes de quedar embarazada - Metilmercurio
U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Mercurio
MedlinePlus - Mercurio (azogue) metálico
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - Resumen de Salud Pública: Mercurio (Azogue)
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - ToxFAQs™ Mercurio (Azogue) (Mercury)
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - Mercurio
Tox Town en Espaóol
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